Caribbean
Lesser Antilles
Saint Martin

Philipsburg

Philipsburg is the capital of "Dutch Side" Sint Maarten on the island of in the sea. It is a busy port for cruise ships and one of the Caribbean's best shopping spots.
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  • Type: Town with 1,300 residents
  • Description: capital city of Sint Maarten
  • Also known as: “Filipsburg”, “Great Bay”, and “Philipsburg, Sint Maarten”
Photo: Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include St. Martin of Tours‘ Church and Fort Hill.

Church
Photo: Richie Diesterheft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The St. Martin of Tours' Church is a religious building is located at 51 Voorstraat, Voorstraat, in the city of Philipsburg, on the Dutch side of the Caribbean in the Lesser Antilles east of the Caribbean Sea or Sea The Antilles.

Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a peak.

Church
Photo: Coenraad Liebrecht Temminck Groll, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Marigot and Lower Prince’s Quarter.

Town
Photo: gadl, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Saint Martin is an island in the Caribbean that is split between the French collectivity of Saint-Martin and the Dutch territory of Sint Maarten. Beauty abounds on the island, with bluffs overlooking pretty harbors, sandy-cliffed beaches and tranquil rocky coves where fish provide the beauty. is situated 6 km northwest of Philipsburg.

Village
Lower Prince's Quarter is a town in , in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 8,143 making it the largest settlement on the island of .

Town
Photo: SV Zanshin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small town on the of the island of in the Caribbean. It lies on the northeast coast of the island, opposite Îlet Pinel and .

Philipsburg

Latitude
18.0251° or 18° 1′ 30″ north
Longitude
-63.0483° or 63° 2′ 54″ west
Population
1,300
United Nations Location Code
SX PHI
Open location code
77CR2XG2+2M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 265616624
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3513392
Wiki­data ID
Q30958
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Philipsburg” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Philipsburg”
  • Arabic: “فيليبسبورج”
  • Arabic: “فيليبسبورغ”
  • Aragonese: “Philipsburg”
  • Armenian: “Ֆիլիպսբուրգ”
  • Asturian: “Philipsburg”
  • Azerbaijani: “Filipsburq”
  • Belarusian: “Філіпсбург (Сінт-Мартэн)”
  • Belarusian: “Філіпсбург”
  • Bosnian: “Philipsburg, Sint Maarten”
  • Bosnian: “Philipsburg”
  • Bulgarian: “Филипсбург”
  • Catalan: “Philipsburg”
  • Cebuano: “Philipsburg (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Philipsburg”
  • Chinese: “Philipsburg”
  • Chinese: “菲利普斯堡”
  • Croatian: “Philipsburg (Zemlja Sveti Martin)”
  • Croatian: “Philipsburg”
  • Czech: “Philipsburg”
  • Dutch: “Philipsburg”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فيليبسبورج”
  • Esperanto: “Philipsburg”
  • Faroese: “Philipsburg”
  • Finnish: “Philipsburg”
  • French: “Philipsburg”
  • Galician: “Philipsburg”
  • Georgian: “ფილიპსბურგი”
  • German: “Philipsburg”
  • Greek: “Φίλιπσμπουργκ”
  • Hebrew: “פיליפסבורג”
  • Hungarian: “Philipsburg”
  • Icelandic: “Philipsburg”
  • Indonesian: “Philipsburg, Sint Maarten”
  • Indonesian: “Philipsburg”
  • Irish: “Philipsburg”
  • Italian: “Philipsburg”
  • Japanese: “フィリップスバーグ”
  • Japanese: “フィリップスブルク”
  • Japanese: “フィリップスブルグ”
  • Japanese: “フィリップスブルフ”
  • Kazakh: “Филипсбург (Синт-Мартен)”
  • Kazakh: “Филипсбург”
  • Korean: “필립스뷔르흐”
  • Latin: “Philippoburgum”
  • Latvian: “Filipsburga”
  • Lithuanian: “Filipsburgas”
  • Lombard: “Philipsburg”
  • Macedonian: “Филипсбург”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Philipsburg”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “فيليپسبورڭ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Philipsburg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Philipsburg”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Philipsburg”
  • Norwegian: “Philipsburg”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Philipsburg”
  • Ossetian: “Филипсбург (Синт-Мартен)”
  • Ossetian: “Филипсбург”
  • Papiamento: “Philipsburg”
  • Persian: “فیلیپسبورگ، سینت مارتن”
  • Piemontese: “Philipsburg”
  • Polish: “Philipsburg”
  • Portuguese: “Philipsburg”
  • Romanian: “Philipsburg, Sint Maarten”
  • Romanian: “Philipsburg”
  • Russian: “Филипсбург”
  • Sardinian: “Philipsburg (Sint Maarten)”
  • Sardinian: “Philipsburg”
  • Scots: “Philipsburg”
  • Serbian: “Филипсбург”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Philipsburg”
  • Slovenian: “Philipsburg, Sveti Martin”
  • Slovenian: “Philipsburg”
  • Spanish: “Philipsburg”
  • Swedish: “Philipsburg”
  • Tamil: “பிலிப்சுபர்கு, சின்டு மார்தின்”
  • Tamil: “பிலிப்சுபர்கு”
  • Thai: “ฟิลิปส์บืร์ค”
  • Thai: “ฟีลิปส์บืร์ค”
  • Turkish: “Philipsburg, Sint Maarten”
  • Turkish: “Philipsburg”
  • Ukrainian: “Філіпсбург”
  • Urdu: “فلپسبرگ”
  • Vietnamese: “Philipsburg”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Philipsburg, Sint Maarten”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Philipsburg”
  • Welsh: “Philipsburg”
  • Wu Chinese: “菲利普斯堡”
  • Zulu: “i-Philipsburg”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Philipsburg”. Photo: MARELBU, CC BY 3.0.